Tainan Olympics Anping Beach

 

The Long Jump

 

 

Award Ceremony

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Olympics

I haven’t written in a while, well that’s a lie, infact I did write but I didn’t want to upload it. I was feeling a little depressed about Taiwan mostly work pissing me off. Man can it be annoying. You just got to remember with the buxiban it is business over education. Bum’s in chairs means nt in pockets. But hey whatever that’s the nature of the work. We get paid well to take the shit. I prefer teaching in High school feels like real teaching not like the buxiban baby sitting.

Anyway that’s not what this is about this is about the Beach olympics drum roll. Its only been two years in the making but I forsee this becoming a big festival in future. Everyone gathered down the beach to do our own olympics. The creators were inspired by last years Olympic fever to make their own and this year they put in a lot of effort to make it better. The teams were south Africa, Europe, Asia pacific, and America. I was part of the Europe team surprisingly enough. The whole thing kicked off at 8.30am for cricket which was a little too early for me. I made down at about 11.30. Events included, swimming, penalty shoot out, cricket, rugby, tug o war, long jump and …was there anything else, oh yes sack race and three legged race. It was forcast to rain and rain it did for maybe 10mins. It was a welcome release from the strong sun. Lets just say there were a lot of red faces by the end of it all.

Dog’s weren’t allowed down the beach as there has been a dog disease, not exactly sure of the name of it I think it is Parvo disease. Someone dumped a pack of puppies down the beach and a foreigner has been trying to find them all homes. He found homes for three of them but then one of the people decided it was a bad decision. They then preceded to take the pup to the pound. It was then the original doggy crusader said not to take it to the pound where a lot of dogs gets put to sleep but to take it back to the beach so he can keep looking for homes. Unfortunately the pup got parvo virus in the pound and came back and gave it to the other pups. They all died and this disease apparently can live in the ground for a year so dogs weren’t allowed. A couple of guys didn’t get the memo and brought them down. Hopefully they’ll be alright. The bad thing is there is a fresh batch of pups down there they are really little .I saw a picture of them I want to take one but I can’t poor things probably won’t last long.

Anyway sports and beer was good fun. The south Africans won, maybe because they took everything far too seriously plus a lot of them are massive so gravity is on their side when it came to tug o war. But it was all together a really great day. Everyone was drunk by the end of it. There was one scooter accident a fractured skull so It is definitely wise to take a taxi down there.  Don’t forget Sunscreen aswell!

More pics to come of the olympics